Books Quote by Vantile Whitfield

Gone are the days when a publisher could take out an ad, count on a few reviews, and have an author do a couple…

— John Searles

I think when you're a beginning author with any publishing company, there's only so much they can put behind you.

— Sarah Dessen

Most publishers, like most writers, are ruined by their successes.

— Willa Cather

“People can’t read a book if they don’t know it exists. All authors need to do marketing, regardless of how they published.”

— Jo Linsdell

“You know what a publisher is? He’s a failed writer whose father was rich enough that he’s able to appropriate other people’s talents.”

— Joël Dicker

Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.

— Fay Weldon

Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.

— Anonymous

“Publishing is a business and writing is an art. The two have to be crammed together despite the clearly different motivations behind them.”

— Michelle M. Pillow

I had a hard time publishing my books in the beginning of my career, because editors were afraid what people would think of THEM,…

— Susie Bright

Relationships between writers and publishers are of course very strange and change all the time, rather like a see-saw.

— Anthony Horowitz

As I said, I had no publisher for What a Carve Up! while I was writing it, so all we had to live off…

— Jonathan Coe

Publishers like their authors to take advantage of publicity opportunities.

— Lionel Shriver